BBC News thread

It's coming - along with more Where I Live site stuff on DSAT. I'm surprised you all haven't noticed any similarities between the 101 news stories on Ceefax and News Online recently ...



Also coming when the planned split to the Southern Counties website happens - although I don't know any dates for that.

Satisfied?

I'm fully digital.. I can't see Ceefax. Given that there is a seperate DSAT signal for each region, Where I live would be a great usability addition.



Praise be! Brighton get's covered the most by BBC South East Today, only visible in Brighton on DSAT 953. Brighton is stuck with SouthAMPTON Today on it's cable and terrestrial transmitters for historic reasons, and ignored by Ceefax.



No! Not until there is a BBC Multiscreen - showing the six currently on-air BBC channels! Never!

Hehe - well, watch this space for the other stuff I mentioned. The full WIL content is probably at least a year off (there's some long-winded tech stuff between here and now before it can be done).

The news stuff might happen sooner - I'm not sure. I'll say more when I can!! I will add that there's quite a push for platform-neutral "content" in the BBC, rather than just websites.

Which makes sense because the proliforation of web-site design has not increased the usability of the world-wide web.

The move to the production of content for multiple platforms is to be applauded.

However, if the interface provided is not of the highest quality (as we have the right to expect from the BBC) then potential users are lost.

Where is the logic, for example, in having an icon that is a widescreen-rectangle that takes you to a screen of six rectangles?

Other problems with the DSAT interface include not having on-screen feedback for some button presses, and language disasters such as having to select "News Multiscreen" then "right" to watch the news headlines, ingnoring the words "NEWS" and "NEWS HEADLINES" that also appear in the same menu...

I can't be that miserable. We have seen some amazing professionalism today from on-screen people, extending Breakfast without any links or computers was mucking-in at it's best.

And it allowed quite a lot of people who don't normally get a chance to get on-screen and give some analysis a look-in too.

Perhaps the unrelenting headlines could be move to the interactive loop, and a more discussive style emerge.

Working Lunch on the Breakfast sofa was a great treat too. Maxine's walk and talk to camera, the sound of the Westminster newsroom in the background, widescreen without the graphics (never happened before).

I hope everyone is being duly rewarded for their efforts.

I'm so glad I had the day off resting up!

i just got back form work!!! power cut?? i am a sparky prehaps i could fix there problem i dont charge london rates!!. ill do it for a tenner and a pint, oh and a sneeky look at there new N24 studio lol

It's amazing how a small fire fooks up News 24 so badly, yet BBC World comes back at ten, and how quickly they seem to recover!

Shame BBC N24's revamp is now next week, oh well!

Yes, why was it that World started back up again so quickly, and News 24 took until 4pm? Was it that Stage 6 was more badly hit than Stage 5, or something to do with the CSO studio? Does that need more power or something?

Has anyone else noticed that the virtual newsroom backdrop on the 1/6/10 looks a bit different. That big circle-shaped open space seems to have moved a bit.

It's pathetic how a piece of equipment can overheat and wipe out a vast amount of the BBC's services. World's Best Broadcaster ? Pah.

It's embarassing no doubt and it seems to happen every few years and News 24 always gets badly affected!

Well to be fair, broadcasters aren't usually judged on their choice of power failsafes, more on their actual content! Having said that your point is apt, it's a shame to see such such a simple achille's heel emerge three times in four years.

News 24 always seems to suffer, it goes hand in hand with my feeling that it's a lower priority than pretty much anything else in the BBC's output - the attitude that's always shone through in my opinion, from presenters to graphics to apparent resources.